Thought for the Day The fiction writer's....

[Paul Whybrow]

The fiction writer’s ambition is modest and overweening: to take the imprint of the passing moment, capture it in the right words, keep it for the future to read.

Tess Hadley

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[Hannah F]

Modest? My ambitions are not modest at all.

 

[E G Logan]

Modest? My ambitions are not modest at all.

And why should they be? Ms H is clearly speaking for herself, though projecting it on all of us.

I read Tess Hadley's last book and thought it was both boring and predictable. Despite the famous 'best first three chapters ever', which were what I bought it for.